Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-03-18


Mrs. w. w. Eaton is home, after
spending several weeks in New York
city.
DIR. G.. o. W. Farnham, formerly of
Bristol, is now in the practice of his pro-
fession at Beatrice, Neb.
Mr.. Willis A. Bryant has lately gradu-
ated from the Albany Business college,
Albany. y. Y, and is now at home.
Mrs. W. ID. Lane was called to her
former home in Dandy. Tuesday. by a
telegram announcing the serious illness
of her mother.
Mr.. Willis NJ. Ross of the class of 'SG
of the college is spending the week in
town. He is one of the teachers at the
Troy Conference academy, Poultney.
Assistant Postmaster Burke was taken
sick Wednesday afternoon and was very
i'll for a few hours. He is better now
and hopes to be at his post again in a day
or two.
Mr.. j. Edwy Buttolph and family have
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the A. b. Treadway farm. which Mr.. j..
L.Buttolph bought at the administrators
sale last fall.
Mr.. Frederick Hamilton, son of Col. \.
f. Hamilton of Salisbury. who has been
in the employ of the Producers Marble
Co. at Rutland, is soon to 60 to st. Louis
to take charge of the company. branch
office and yard at that city.
Miss Sophie. daughter of Rufus VAIN
wright. Esq, has been compelled by
failing oversight to abandon. for the
second time this school year, her studies
at Abbott academy, Andover. Mass.
She returned home Wednesday afternoon.
Mr.. b. F. Churchill. who was gradual
ted from the college in the class of 81.
was graduated last week from the college
of Physicians and Surgeons, New York
city. He tool a first prize of $50 for the
best notes of one of the instructors lect-
ures, and was one of the 20 out of the
class of over 100 who passed the best eX-
aminations on the several studies of the
course.
Col. Tracy has just returned from
Chelsea. Mass. whittier he went with
the other members of the finance com
mittee of the State soldiers home to in
spect the working of the Massachusetts
home there located. The results of the
committees observations will be embod-
led in the rules for the management OF
the Vermont home which will he drawn
up at the committees meeting in Ben
nington next month. Twenty applica'
tons for admission to the home have
already been received.
Col. Jewett Wilcox of Chicago, who
has visited Middlebury every summer
with one exception, since 1851, will have
to defer his coming till fall this year
The Daily Hotel Register of Chicago
says: 1.-The River View Hotel company
= formed last year at ka~nkakee, Ill.,, TO
the erection of a first-class summer hote
on the banks of the kankakee river, nea
that city, have, we are pleased to an
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4 well-known Chicago hotel keeper, Col
Jewett Wilcox, to become the manage
: of the River View Hotel. This new re
sort hotel, which is rapidly approaching
completion, is most charmingly locate
n in a fine oak grove on the banks of til
e Kankakee river, about one and a half mile
n from the town. The ground owned b.
c the company covers seven acres, and i
e addition to the grove above mentione
# there are to be numerous improvement
made in the way of landscape gardening
> etc. The hotel. which is nearly con
pleted, is a handsome structure, and COZ
tains 100 rooms for guests. kankakee
Is reached by the Illinois Central railroa
II from Chicago in two hour by fast trains
% and there is every reason to believe thu
n River View will become a very popula
r resort with Chicago people. Mr.. Wilcox
who has been engaged as manager at
k liberal salary, is well II favorabl
q known throughout the country as til
former manager of the fremont an
IN Gardner Houses in Chicago, and latterl
=, as the manager of the Hotel Lafayette
= Lake Minnetonka, MINI. No better ma
could possibly have been selected to col
duct the new hotel, and the gentleme
comprising the company are fortunate
securing Mr.. WilcoX's services
y HoRsEs FOR THE New YORK MARkE'
~ Sixteen head of horses from III. and
head from this place, the latter mostl
g from the Bread Loaf farms, were shippe
+" to New York this week and will be sol
at the Peter c. Kellogg sale in that cit,
"a which begins at 10 o'clock on Tuesda
s. morning next and continues four day
O. The shipment from here includes Il